IN A letter published last year, I pointed out the ambiguity of paragraph 22 of the Lendal Report.
This strongly suggested to anyone familiar with council-speak that there was a plan mooted to move the Etty statue.
However, Gill Cooper, the head of culture, tourism and city centre responded, as reported in The Press of June 25, 2013, that: “There are no plans to move the statue.”
What could be clearer?
Yet, the latest artist’s impression of the council’s “vision” of Exhibition Square shows a William Etty pushed aside, banished, literally “sent to the wall” and “hedged in”.
What an outrageous indignity to be inflicted on the memory of one of York’s most illustrious citizens.
William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.
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